Knockouts High and Low | National Review Online

Speaking of appetite, have you played the "Knockout" game yet? Groups of black youths roam the streets looking for a solitary pedestrian, preferably white (hence the alternate name "polar-bearing") but Asian or Hispanic will do. The trick is to knock him to the ground with a single punch. There's a virtually limitless supply of targets: In New York, a 78-year-old woman was selected, and went down nice and easy, as near-octogenarian biddies tend to when sucker-punched. But, when you're really rockin', you can not only floor the unsuspecting sucker but kill him: That's what happened to 46-year-old Ralph Santiago of Hoboken, N.J., whose head was slammed into an iron fence, whereupon he slumped to the sidewalk with his neck broken. And anyway the one-punch rule is flexible: In upstate New York, a 13-year-old boy socked 51-year-old Michael Daniels but with insufficient juice to down him. So his buddy threw a bonus punch, and the guy died from cerebral bleeding. Widely available video exists of almost all Knockout incidents, since the really cool thing is to have your buddies film it and upload it to YouTube. And it's so simple to do in an age when every moronic savage has his own "smart phone."

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/364659/knockouts-high-and-low-mark-steyn

A good example of what government should be doing well - defending the rights of individuals against violent assault.

"Ungovernable"

The fact of the matter is, the last time liberals and traditional media sources were asking the question, they were asking it while Jimmy Carter was President. It was the penultimate moment of the Carter Presidency when, breaking out of the echo chamber, liberals in the media began to openly ponder the ungovernability of the American Republic and whether the Presidency was too big for one man.
Turns out the Republic was just fine. It wasn’t that the Presidency was too big for one man. It was that the particular occupant of the office was too small for the job. When Reagan became President, the question was rendered moot.
As my friend Josh Trevino has pointed out, this question has been raised throughout the history of our Republic in one form or another. That it is being raised again shows a lack of appreciation for our history, a misunderstanding of our constitutional order, and a constrained sense of exactly what governing success looks like.  http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/06/18/weve-reached-the-penultimate-jimmy-carter-moment-of-the-obama-presidency/

The heart of this point is - what is the purpose of government?  If your answer is "to defend the rights of the individual" then you know that may be accomplished by an entity even so clumsy as government.  When governments try to do more than that they stumble into the land of the fatal conceit.